The Interrogation - Couverture souple

Le Clézio, J.M.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141042923 ISBN 13 : 9780141042923

Editeur : Penguin, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Mr. Le Clézio has the gift and the power of conviction of the true writer and novelist. If this book is in some measure a psychological experiment, it has been conducted warm rather than cold, and the reader participates in it with all his faculties....You must read this book." -- Robert Kanters, Figaro Littéraire

"Le Clézio has told his story without a single recourse to philosophical, moral or metaphysical jargon; his tone has a tranquility which conveys all the ultimate sense of the profound meaning of life: a tone for poets....Le Clézio. A name to remember." -- Maurice Nadeau, L'Express

"Powerful and daring...Le Clézio has altered the form of the novel." -- Barbara Probst Solomon, The New York Times Book Review

"Author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." -- Swedish Academy Citation, 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature

"A bewitching storyteller...Exquisitely attuned to nature's quest for balance and humanity's penchant for excess and paradox, Le Clézio writes with high compassion and deep wonder of the boundless strength of the spirit." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist

"Le Clézio's verbal felicity is amazing.... we come away awed by his skill in manipulating language and dazzled by his ability to create with words vividly impressionistic paintings." -- Page Stegner, The New York Times Book Review

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye or a rat's . . . states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of glaring hallucinatory experience. Then Adam addresses a small crowd in the town. His unnerving rhetoric ends in arrest and removal to an asylum. And there the interrogation begins . . .With this stunning debut novel Le Clézio was acclaimed as the most exciting figure to appear on the French literary scene since the death of Camus. The Interrogation still holds the power to grip and astonish today.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141042923
• ISBN 13: 9780141042923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224